麻豆传媒

I am a scholar of work and employment relations whose research examines how labour markets are transformed by economic restructuring, regulatory change, and new forms of work organisation. My work focuses on employment relations, labour regulation, collective action, precarious employment, and platform work, with a particular interest in how workers organise and exercise power under fragmented employment regimes.

My research is driven by the idea that understanding labour regulation requires looking beyond formal institutions to the everyday practices through which workers, trade unions, employers and the state shape employment relations. I combine insights from employment relations, sociology of work and political economy to investigate how labour institutions evolve in response to liberalisation, digitalisation, subcontracting and the platform economy. A central theme running through my work is the relationship between worker mobilisation, labour market institutions and the regulation of work, particularly in contexts characterised by precarious employment, dependent self-employment and fragmented labour markets.

Methodologically, I adopt comparative and mixed-method approaches, drawing on qualitative, quantitative and historical research across different national contexts, particularly the United Kingdom and Southern Europe. My research aims to produce theoretically informed, empirically rigorous and policy-relevant evidence that contributes to contemporary debates on the future of work, labour regulation and employment rights.

My research has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the European Commission (Marie Curie Fellowship and Framework Programmes), the British Academy, the Director of Labour Market Enforcement (BEIS), and national and university research funders. I have published in leading international journals including Work, Employment and Society, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Journal of Industrial Relations, Economic and Industrial Democracy and European Journal of Industrial Relations, amongst others. Alongside my academic research, I work closely with policymakers, trade unions and worker organisations to translate research into policy and practice, particularly in relation to labour standards enforcement, platform work and innovative forms of worker-led regulation.

My areas of interest include:

• Changes in employment regulation institutions and the impact of neo-liberal policies.
• Industrial relations, including union practices and emerging forms of protest/collective action.
• Precarious work, precarious workers and insecurity in the workplace.

Research projects (funded):

• The regulation of work and employment in the platform economy: Developing Transnational Organisational Learning Experiences of regulation from below in the UK and Spain., Economic and Social Research Council - Impact Acceleration Account and Faculty Impact Fund, University of 麻豆传媒 Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, May 2025-Ongoing,
• 'Understanding the impact of ‘bogus’ self-employment in working lives during and after COVID-19', Faculty Research Fund, University of 麻豆传媒 Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, March-September 2023, PI.
• 'Trade Union Leadership and Political Change: Spain 1960s-2018',School Research Fund, Alliance Manchester Business School, Co-I.
• 'The price of bogus self-employment: Analysing the impact of the individualisation of risks on working lives', BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants 2017-18 Round, May 2018-May 2021, PI.
• 'The impact of the individualisation of resources on the self-employed', College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities Research Fund, University of Leicester, PI
• ‘The fissuring of the Employment relationship in the Hotel industry’, Director of Labour Market Enforcement (BEIS), 09/2018-12/2018., PI
• 'Gender pay-gap as a multidimensional phenomenon. Analysis of the institutional, organisational and cultural barriers' (La brecha salarial como fenómeno multidimensional. Análisis de barreras institucionales, organizacionales y culturales), Recercaixa Program, 15/02/2016-15/02/18. Co-Investigator, PI: Pilar Carrasquer (UAB), Co-I
• 'Lost in transition: Employment insecurity and its effects in younger adult’s life courses in times of austerity in the UK and Spain', Beatriu de Pinós Fellowhsip (Marie Curie Cofund, contract number 600385), 7th Framework programme, European Commission - Government of Catalonia, October 2015-October, PI.
• Labour trajectories in UK and Spain. Analysis of capabilities in transitions using a mixed-method approach (TRANSICAP), Marie Curie Intra European Fellowship, 7th Framework programme, European Commission, ref. FP7-328223, May 2013-May 2015, PI (supervisor: Prof. Jill Rubery)., PI

Postgraduate supervision

I am interested in supervising research students on projects related to my areas of interest

Undergraduate teaching:

• BUS3066: Critical Issues Human Resource Management: Pragmatic Dilemmas in Managing the Workplace of the Future

Postgraduate teaching:

• NBS8287: Global Employment Relations
• NBS8387: HRM in Cross-National Contexts

• Articles

  • Lopez-Andreu M. . Sociology 2026, epub ahead of print.
  • Lopez-Andreu M. . Critical Sociology 2026, epub ahead of print.
  • Lopez-Andreu M, Martinez Lucio M. . Journal of Industrial Relations 2025, 67(3), 555-582.
  • Monroe J, Lopez-Andreu M. . Economic and Industrial Democracy 2026, 47(2), 310-330.
  • Mustchin S, Johnson M, Lopez-Andreu M. . Industrial Relations Journal 2023, 54(2), 117-131.
  • Papadopoulos O, Lopez-Andreu M, Jamalian M. . Industrial Relations Journal 2021, 52(4), 315-330.
  • López-Andreu M, Rubery J. . Economic and Industrial Democracy 2021, 42(2), 289-313.
  • López-Andreu M, Verd JM. . Critical Sociology 2020, 46(6), 835-850.
  • López-Andreu M. . European Journal of Industrial Relations 2019, 25(4), 309-325.
  • López-Andreu M. . Sociologia del Trabajo 2019, 95, 73-88.
  • López-Andreu M. . British Journal of Industrial Relations 2019, 57(2), 328-349.
  • López-Andreu M. . Work, Employment and Society 2019, 34(4), 661-677.
  • López-Andreu M. . Employee Relations 2017, 39(3), 408-422.
  • López-Andreu M, Verd JM. . European Societies 2016, 18(4), 315-335.
  • López-Andreu M. . Anuari de l’Institut d’Estudis del Treball 2016, 31, 113-127.
  • Verd JM, López-Andreu M. . Papers. Revista de Sociologia 2016, 101(1), 5-30.
  • López-Andreu M. . Sociologia del Trabajo 2014, (81), 27-49.
  • López-Andreu M, Verd JM. Employers’ strategies, capabilities and career development in Spain. A comparative case analysis at two service firms. International Journal of Manpower 2013, 34(4), 345-361.
  • Bartelheimer P, Verd JM, Lehwes-Litzmann R, López-Andreu M, Schmidt T. Unemployment, intervention and capabilities. A comparative study of Germany and Spain. Transfer. European Review of Labour and Research 2012, 18(1), 31-44.
  • Verd JM, López-Andreu M. ‘La inestabilidad del empleo en las trayectorias laborales. Un análisis cuantitativo’ [The instability of employment in labour trajectories. A quantitative analysis”]. Revista Espanola de Investigaciones Sociologicas 2012, (138), 135-148.
  • Verd JM, López-Andreu M. The rewards of a qualitative approach to life-course research. The example of the effects of social protection policies on career paths. Forum: Qualitative Social Research 2011, 12(3).
  • López-Andreu V, Verd JM. Les effets de la formation diffèrent selon les parcours sur le marché du travail: l’exemple catalán. Formation Emploi 2011, (113), 63-79.
  • Verd JM, Vero J, López-Andreu M. Trayectorias laborales y enfoque de las capacidades: Elementos para una evaluación longitudinal de las políticas de protección social’ [Labour trajectories and capabilities approach. Elements for a longitudinal evaluation of social policies]”. Sociologia del Trabajo 2009, (67), 125-150.
  • López-Andreu M. ‘La reforma de la prestació d’atur a Espanya en el marc de la Estratègia Europea d’Ocupació’ [The reform of unemployment benefit in Spain in the framework of the European Employment Strategy]. Papers. Revista de Sociologia 2008, (88), 11-30.
  • López Andreu M, Lope A, Verd JM. 'El empleo subvencionado: entre las políticas activas de empleo y la mutación del salario’ [Subsidized employment: between Active labour Market policies and wage transformation]. Cuadernos de Relaciones Laborales 2007, 25(12), 151-178.

• Book Chapters

  • Figueiredo, H, Lopez-Andreu, M. Gender Pay Inequality and Wage Setting Institutions through Crises and Recoveries: A Southern European success story?. In: Rubery, J; Sanchez-Mira, N; Instaurato, V, ed. Women in Turbulent Times Crises, Transitions and Challenges for Gender Equality. 2026. In Preparation.
  • Lopez-Andreu M. . In: Carlos J. Fernández Rodríguez and Miguel Martínez Lucio, ed. Work and Employment Relations in Southern Europe. Cheltenham - Northampton: Edward Elgar publishing, 2023, pp.113-136.
  • Verd JM, Lopez Andreu M. . In: Otto H-U; Ziegler H, ed. Critical Social Policy and the Capability Approach. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Barbara Budrich, 2014, pp.207-230.
  • López-Andreu M, Lope A, Verd JM. New Employment Forms. Reducing the Scope of Wage. In: Clasquin,B;Friot,B, ed. The wage under attack. Brussels: PIE-Peter Lang, 2013.
  • Bartelheimer P, Verd JM, Büttner R, López-Andreu M, Schmidt T. Action publique et liberté de choix pour les chômeurs : étude contrastée de l’Allemagne et de l’Espagne. In: Salais,R, ed. Le travail réinventé. Un défi pour l’Europe. Nantes: Cabinet Martinez, 2011. In Preparation.

• Online Publication

  • López-Andreu M. . Manchester: University of Manchester, 2020. Available at: .

• Report

  • López-Andreu M, Papadopolous O, Jamalian M. . London: Director of Labour Market Enforcement, 2019.

• Reviews

  • López-Andreu M. . Work, Employment and Society 2020, 35(1), 197-198.
  • López-Andreu M. . Work, Employment and Society 2019, 33(6), 1071-1073.
  • López-Andreu M. . British Journal of Industrial Relations 2018, 56(1), 234-236.

• Working Paper

  • López-Andreu M. . QUIT Working paper series 2016, 20.